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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: qemu/hw/device-assignment: questions about msix_table_page
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:31:09 +0300
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Sheng Yang wrote:
>>> msix_table_page is a page, and mmap allocate memory on page boundary. So
>>> I use it.
>>>       
>> Just wondering, would e.g. posix_memalign work here as well?
>>     
>
> Um, I think it should work too.
>   

I think qemu_malloc() would work just as well.  The hardware never sees 
the page, so it doesn't need to be aligned.


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